Overview

Use this rail and stile router bit set to create beautiful door frames for glass panel, flat panel and raised panel doors. Rockler rail and stile bit sets are manufactured to exacting standards and create perfectly matched cope and stick joints. The one-piece cutting edge allows you to achieve a perfect fit without having to disassemble an arbor and install shims. With ball bearing guide, you can even use a template to build doors with curving rails.

Reviews

This set is nicely matched, it makes very tight joints. However, I did have a hard time getting clean cuts on maple, it made an excesive amount of tearout along the profile. I tried various router and feed speeds but non of which helped. They cut great on pine and okay on oak. I have since purchased a set from diffrent company and have been using those.

I called to question why the roller bearings were set so high, friendly service tech explained these bits are designed to be used with a fence. Reason for high setting of bearing is if you use a pattern and do arches. So any none straight cuts off the fence will require you to attach a pattern to your work piece to use the roller bearing.

I made the doors for a china hutch (still in progress) using these bits, and got clean cuts in red oak as long as I used a backer board to control chipout on the exit side of the cut. The joints fit air-tight, and the bearings make positioning the router table fence a breeze.

I was unsure about using my P-C #691 router at full speed, so I bought the Rockler speed controller. It works just fine, but I was almost at full speed for the cleanest cut anyway!! I also tried taking a 1/2 depth cut first, as I was concerned about the power of my router, but it cut full depth with no problem. I also used the set-up jig, which is a great help, and obtained a really good fit on my first set-up. Excellent stuff altogether.